A man who was on the FBI’s most wanted list was apprehended after reportedly taking part in a fraud scheme that stole $547 from the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Khalid Satary was caught in the Middle East on Wednesday and returned to the United States on Tuesday.
Between 2016 and 2019, Satary owned and ran many diagnostic testing laboratories around the United States, reportedly billing the Medicare Program for costly and medically useless genetic tests.
Satary is accused of conspiring with dozens of patient recruiters, telemarketing call centers, and telemedicine companies to generate cancer genetic test samples for $10,000 to $20,000 per sample through deceptive marketing tactics and unlawful payments and bribery.
Satary’s laboratory billed Medicare for more than $547 million. He also allegedly paid millions of dollars in unlawful payments and bribes to doctors and patient recruiters.
Satary was indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans on September 26, 2019.
He was detained and charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States by paying and receiving illegal health care kickbacks and bribes, and conspiracy to launder money.
Satary was released on bond with the condition that he not work in the health care profession.
While on bond, Satary reportedly collaborated with Houston-based laboratories in Texas to file bogus genetic testing claims with Medicare.
Satary was issued a federal arrest warrant on November 23, 2022, by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana, for violating his pre-trial release.
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